look at the same map of new york city for city council races, it's covered. there are small contributions coming from every neighborhood, even the poorest neighborhoods in the city. people who are running for office are reaching out to their constituents, ordinary citizens, they're having house parties in people's living rooms, not large, you know, large check fund-raisers. and the statistics are that the people who participate in the system get the majority of their funding from small contributors and only a small minority of what are still large contributions of, you know, $1,000 and up. >> this is a gigantic change. i mean, people should appreciate who gets to run for office when you have a system like this. librarians run for office, ex-teachers run for office. it's not just people who have a rolodex of prospective donors who get to run for office. and it's good for the candidates and the voters alike. there's a lot of middle class and working class people who can put that $10 and $20 and $50 together. that's worth $70 or $140 or $350 to the candidate. so